Posts Tagged 3yo3
: Captured : - 3yo3 Cosmo
New ongoing feature here on YoYoSkills. I think I have expressed how much I am getting into Photography recently so I thought that a new ongoing segment focusing on Yo-Yos in Photography might fit here on YoYoSkills.com
To start us off, here are some of my recent shots with the 3yo3 Cosmo by Landon Balk.
Featured Video - SYBlog: 3Yo3 Bassline
Posted by Dr. Yo-Yo in Featured Videos on August 10th, 2010
SYBlog: 3Yo3 Bassline promo from jayson lim on Vimeo.
A Nice Promo video featuring one of my favorite yo-yos
YoYoSkills.com Birthday Contest - REVAMPED! SEVEN PRIZE PACKAGES? Announcement #4
Posted by Dr. Yo-Yo in Contest Reports, News on August 9th, 2010
BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT: we are breaking the prizes into 7 individual prizes to be given out for the Twitter contest.
Peanut Free + low trans fat
>> Announcement #1
>> Announcement #2
>> Announcement #3
>> Announcement #4
More sponsors have signed up, and sent there goodies and we have OVER TEN THOUSAND Twitter Tweets coming in for the YoYoSkills.com contest!
Prize Pool:
- One Drop - Y-Factor
- YoYoNation - Dark Magic
- YoYoExpert - $50 Gift Certificate
- ILOVEYOYO - A FURY and a VOID
- 3yo3 - Capella
- Duncan - 1 Set of Duncan Trading Cards, 2 Clear FHZ, 2 FH2, and a Hyabusa
- YoYoJam - Trinity
- YoYoLoco - $50 Gift Certificate
You see all that? That is OVER $500 dollars of goodies!
Prize Packages:
SEVEN WINNERS!!!!!
- Hyabusa + FHZ + Y-Factor
- Dark Magic + FHZ + Capella
- FH2 + Set of Duncan Cards + Void
- Set of Duncan Cards + Fury
- FH2 + Set of Duncan Cards + Trinity
- $50 Gift Certificate to YoYoExpert.com
- $50 Gift Certificate to YoYoLoco.com
All you have to do is 
at twitter.com/YoYoSkills and retweet this message AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT:
RT: YoYoSkills.com is turning TWO YEARS OLD! FOLLOW and RETWEET to enter the CELEBRATION Contest! #contest #yoyoskills #YYSturns2
I have made it easy for you. Just click this link right HERE.
Because it is fun. Thats why
For Extra Fun (and absolutly no reason whatsoever, use your smart phone and scan this qrcode for the same link above.
YoYoSkills.com Birthday - Announcement 2
Peanut Free
Announcement #2:
More sponsors have come on board, and alot of goodies have been showing up for the Twitter YoYoSkills.com contest! Joining the party is YoYoNation.com who sent in a YoYoNation.co.uk edition Dark Magic, and ILYY who gave me the go ahead to give away one of the four ILYY’s I just got done reviewing.
Prize Pool so far -
One Drop - Y-Factor
YoYoNation - Dark Magic
YoYoExpert - $50 Gift Certificate
ILOVEYOYO - A FURY and a VOID
3yo3 - To Be Determined
Duncan - To Be Determined
YoYoJam - To Be Determined
All this awesomeness will go to 1 (ONE) Winner of the Twitter Contestabanza.
All you have to do is at twitter.com/YoYoSkills and retweet this message AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT:
RT: YoYoSkills.com is turning TWO YEARS OLD! FOLLOW and RETWEET to enter the CELEBRATION Contest! #contest #yoyoskills #YYSturns2
I have made it easy for you. Just click this link right HERE.
Because it is fun. Thats why
For Extra Fun (and absolutly no reason whatsoever, use your smart phone and scan this qrcode for the same link above.
YoYoSkills.com Birthday - Announcement 1
As many of you know, YoYoSkills.com turns 2 on August 20th. I am celebrating this by offering a contest to all my readers. Over the last two years, YoYoSkills.com has grown and exceeded all my expectations I could ever have had for this little project. Right now we range from 13,000 -18,000 page views A DAY which is around half a million views a month! YoYoSkills.com could have never grown this big without the support of the readers, stores, and manufactures and it humbles me to see my project take off the way it has. To say Thank You, I have decided to hold a “Twitter Based” contest.
So all that you already knew…. Todays announcement concerns the prizes. Duncan, YoYoJam, OneDrop, 3yo3, and YoYoExpert have all pledged to put an item into the prize basket. It is possible that more companies will join this celebration. Early estimates at this point have the prize pool to over $300 in yoyo goods. A slight change also. You may now enter this contest as many times as you like. That is to say, once you follow YoYoSkills on Twitter, every time you retweet the contest message below you increase your odds of winning the prize box.
All you have to do is at twitter.com/YoYoSkills and retweet this message AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT:
RT: YoYoSkills.com is turning TWO YEARS OLD! FOLLOW and RETWEET to enter the CELEBRATION Contest! #contest #yoyoskills #YYSturns2
I have made it easy for you. Just click this link right HERE.
On August 20th, I will search for the quote above and randomly pick a winner. That winner will get a bunch of goodies from the YoYoSkills.com Birthday Sponsors.
YOU MUST BE FOLLOWING ME ON TWITTER TO WIN.
The more you retweet, the better your chances!
Product Review - The Bass Line by 3yo3
I am a fan of 3yo3. Landon takes some of the craziest ideas and makes them real. Yo-Yo hand turned from Acrylic? Check. Acrylic metal hybrid? Can do. Delrin? He’s got that. Landon offers many different options in yo-yo color, material, and responses. Over the last few months, Landon has been talking about making a metal yo-yo. Landon worked out a shape in CAD, sent it off to Ernie at General-Yo for input, and then had them machined. A trip to the anodizer, OneDrop for a Pyramatte finish, a buddy who specialized in laser engraving, and the Bass Line was finished. Truly, the Bass Line was a work of respect between friends. Landon got a gold Base Line in my hands for a review and I am more than happy to oblige.
3yo3 Bass Line Drops at LandonBalk.com
With the review for the 3yo3 Bass Line currently in it’s final stages, Landon made the new metal available right now!
Available in Gold, Black, Blue and Red (discounted price), Silver, and a few combo’s for $90.
- Diameter: 56.40mm
- Width: 41.18mm
- Weight: 66.4 grams
- Gap Width: 4.1mm
- Response: Flowable Silicone
- Bearing: C, stainless, pre-cleaned
I expect to post the review Sunday Evening, but you really may not want to wait.
3yo3 Capella
From the Grey Matter of Landon Balk, here is a new undersized delrin throw available right now at his webstore.
Diameter: 50.80mm
Width: 42.00mm
Weight: 68.0 grams
Flow Groove Size: (3.15 deep, 2.02 width)mm
Bearing: A, C or D, stainless, pre-cleaned.
3yo3 Ceephax
Here is the new 3yo3 yo-yo called the Ceephax.
Pictures from Landon Balk
Diameter: 53.34mm
Width: 41.3mm
Weight: 67.5 grams
Flow Groove Size: (3.15 deep, 2.02 width)mm
Bearing: A, C or D, stainless, pre-cleaned.
WHITE Powdercoated Basslines by 3yo3
JAW HITS FLOOR
They’re “dinosaur egg” shell in colour, gloss white w/ a few specs here & there of black and orange… expect these to be dropping @ www.landonbalk.com in the next couple of days! Going to be about $85 or 90.
>>>> www.landonbalk.com
All I know is it is a WHITE POWERCOATED metal yo-yo (of doom?)
Sweet potatoes and strawberries do I want one…..
YOU CAN’T HAVE ONE. YOUR GONNA HAVE TO FIGHT ME.
*Gets chains and spiked boards out*
3yo3’s new metal - The Bass Line
3yo3 has started production of their first metal yo-yo release, the Bass Line.
56.43mm dia
41.10mm wide
4.11mm gap
C bearing (.5x.25x.1875), stainless precleaned. Same as all the other 3yo3’s
66.4g
Flow-Groove response
More pictures after the jump
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Collabricon drops at the 3yo3 store
Picture by Landon Balk
Diameter: 55.88mm
Width: 40.64mm
Weight: 65 grams
Pad Recess: Fits Thin Gen-Pads
Bearing: General-Yo AIGR bearing, size C
Only 10 available, and ONLY at LandonBalk.com
Higby x 3yo3 Profly Collab!
The precision mod of Landon Balk.
The art stylings of John Higby.
Bearingized and Painted Profly’s.
Get these beauties now at John Higby’s Big Cartel webstore.
Only $25!
Re: The 3yo3 Metal
Jayson over at Sy Blog left me a note on his front page regarding these photo’s of a 3yo3 proto.
Jayson -
I’ve never blogged about 3YO3 so far, have no idea why, my bad.
probably wait for Chris to talk about it more on YoYoSkills?
Chris……
To answer the question, it is indeed a hand turned 3yo3 Cosmo.
Landon Balk -
story on this yoyo:
So my roommate kyle (k-cast) is in a photo class, & wanted to take pictures of this thing for class- & decided to have a little fun posting it up (lol).
Anyway, it’s possibly a 3yo3 metal proto. This one is hand made, took about 2 hours to do. The production ones will be CNC’d. It weighs in @ 73 grams, dia is 56mm, and I don’t have my micrometer or I’d tell you the width. I’d guess 40mm?
Will be a while before they’d be hitting shelves, but hopefully this year, ha.
Enjoy!
3yo3 and General-Yo Collaberation - The COLLABRICON
Here is the first look at the new 3yo3 / General-Yo collaboration called the COLLABRICON
It was Co-designed by Ernie and Landon and then hand turned by Landon on the CNC Machine hand turned lathe (wow). The material is a Neon Acrylic.
C0-designed with General-Yo, and machined by 3yo3.
Specs: (Prototype)
Weight : 65 gr
Diameter: 55.8 mm
Width: 41.25 mm
Gap: 4.15 mm
Large AIGR bearing
The 3Yo3 Omnicron - More Acrylic Goodness
I have been holding out on this until it went on sale. Landon Balk’s newest acrylic creation,t he Omnicron, is now on sale at his (newly redesigned) website / eStore.
The 3YO3 Acryllion
(Pictures by Landon Balk)
Coming Soon to stores
More pictures and comparison of the Acryllion and Cosmo after the jump…
3yo3 Cosmo’s drop at the OneDrop Store
In case you missed the 10 that dropped at YoYoGuy a few weeks ago, OneDrop has 10 of these beauties at the OneDrop Store
REVIEW - 3yo3 Duncan Butterfly Mod
Introductions:
Nostalgia is one of my favorite feelings. It has a “Yeah, that’s how it should be.” attitude to it an always puts me at ease. I love the new Mustangs and Chargers because they are modeled after the old ones. I love Indiana Jones movies because they are modeled after the old western serials. I love Video Game remakes made in the spirit of the original like the New Super Mario Bros. And I love classic yo-yos like the 70’s Duncan Butterfly. White, red, and orange, with gold filled etching… ahhhhh what a look. You might as well toss me a bottle of Coke, hop in the back of my 77 El Camino, and sneak into the Drive-In-Movies with me. I expressed my love of nostalgia with 3yo3’s Landon Balk, and he clued me into a secret project of his. 1970’s Duncan Butterfly, modified to take a bearing and flowable silicone. For a week, I was perched on my mailbox like an eagle ready to swoop down and grab a river bass. I was excited. I was going to get to review a modernized classic, the 3yo3’s Bearing(ized) classic Genuine Duncan Butterfly.
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